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 Definitions of Instrumental  [ˌɪn strəˈmɛn tl]  

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Definition of 'Instrumental' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) instrumental
serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.

2.  instrumental
performed on or written for a musical instrument or instruments.

3.  instrumental
of or pertaining to an instrument or tool.

4.  instrumental
of or designating a grammatical case or form typically indicating means or agency.

5. (n.) instrumental
the instrumental case.

6.  instrumental
a word in the instrumental case.

7.  instrumental
a piece of music played by an instrument or a group of instruments.

Etymology:  (1350–1400; ME < ML)

Definition of 'Instrumental' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) instrumental
relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments
"instrumental compositions"; "an instrumental ensemble"

2. (adj) implemental, instrumental, subservient
serving or acting as a means or aid
"instrumental in solving the crime"


Definition of 'Instrumental' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) Instrumental
acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business

2. (adj) Instrumental
pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music

3. (adj) Instrumental
applied to a case expressing means or agency; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms


Translation of 'Instrumental' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: performed on, or written for, musical instrument(s) rather than voices
She likes instrumental music.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: instrumenteel Arabic flag Arabic: آلي Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: инструментален
Brazilian flag Brazilian: instrumental Czech flag Czech: instrumentální German flag German: Instrumental-...
Danish flag Danish: instrumental; instrumenta Greek flag Greek: οργανικός Spanish flag Spanish: instrumental
Estonian flag Estonian: instrumentaal- Farsi flag Farsi: سازی Finnish flag Finnish: instrumentaalinen
French flag French: instrumental Hebrew flag Hebrew: שֶׁלְ כְלֵי נְגִינָה Hindi flag Hindi: सहायक, वाद्य संगीत
Croatian flag Croatian: instrumentalan Hungarian flag Hungarian: hangszeres Indonesian flag Indonesian: instrumental
Icelandic flag Icelandic: á/fyrir hljóðfæri Italian flag Italian: strumentale Japanese flag Japanese: 器楽の
Korean flag Korean: 악기로 연주되는 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: instrumentinis Latvian flag Latvian: instrumentāls
Malay flag Malay: instrumental Dutch flag Dutch: instrumentaal Norwegian flag Norwegian: instrumental
Polish flag Polish: instrumentalny Persian flag Persian: سازی Pashto flag Pashto: دالى يااسباب په دود استعم
Portuguese flag Portuguese: instrumental Romanian flag Romanian: in­stru­mental Russian flag Russian: инструментальный
Slovak flag Slovak: inštrumentálny Slovenian flag Slovenian: instrumentalen Serbian flag Serbian: instrumentalan
Swedish flag Swedish: instrumental Thai flag Thai: ทำขึ้นสำหรับเครื่องดนตรี Turkish flag Turkish: enstümental, çalgısal
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 樂器的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: інструментальний Urdu flag Urdu: سازوں پر مبنی موسیقی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: thuộc về nhạc khí Chinese flag Chinese: 乐器的,仪器的

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